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Indexing Strategy and Design Questions

Choosing and designing indexes: B-tree, hash, composite, covering, and partial indexes, and the trade-offs between read acceleration and write/storage overhead. Covers selecting index columns from query patterns, cardinality and selectivity reasoning, and diagnosing why an index is or is not used. Central to database performance interviews.

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